In Westman Region, Kelly Robertson (Doug Armour, Peter Prokopowhich and Bob Scales) from the Neepawa Curling Club and Murray Warren (Brian Barker, Terry Warren and Reg Warren) from the Deloraine Curling Club won A-Side berths in the Regional playoffs. Robertson defeated Chris Wytinck-Glenboro (10-5) and Warren defeated Perry Fisher-Wawanesa (9-5). On the B-Side of the draw, Fisher (6-5 over Cory Zdan-Virden) and Kelly Marnoch-Carberry (8-2 over Wytinck) won the Safeway Championship berths. Personnell of all teams which won regional berths. NORMAN: Grant Brown-Burntwood (Jonathan Sawatzky, Tuffy Seguin and Mike Mcgurk) PARKLAND: Roger Parker-Dauphin (Jason Yates, Ian Ferley and Rob Fisher) AND Glenn Toews-Dauphin (Bryan Preston, Dwayne Moffat and Steve Procyshyn) INTERLAKE: Evan Martin-East St Paul (Travis Bale, Ian Fordyce, Nigel Milnes and Scott Madams) AND Andy Stewart-Stonewall (Andrew Hunt, Myles MacMillan and Trevor Blue) EASTMAN: Richard Muntain-Pinawa (Mike McCaughan, Curtis Atkins and Rodney Legault) CENTRAL: Ryan Hyde-Portage (Kyle Einarson, Farrol Asham and Kenny Keeler)………Steve Pauls-Manitou (Clare Reimer, Kevin Friesen, Tim Bridges and Rob Reimer) AND Curtis McCannell-Pilot Mound (Bill Thiessen, Rob Vandeynze and Jason Morrow) WESTMAN: Kelly Robertson-Neepawa (Doug Armour, Peter Prokopowhich and Bob Scales)……Murray Warren-Deloraine (Brian Barker, Terry Warren and Reg Warren)……….Kelly Marnoch-Carberry (Bart Witherspoon, Branden Jorgensen and Chris Cameron) AND Perry Fisher-Wawanesa (Kevin Cullen, Brett Mcgregor and Sean Martin) WINNIPEG: Jeff Stoughton-Charleswood (Rob Fowler, Alex Forrest and Connor Njegovan)……….William Kuran-Granite (Taylor Mcintyre, Riley Smith and Jared Hancox)……Braden Calvert-Deer Lodge (Kyle Kurz, Lucas Van Den Bosch and Brendan Wilson)……Trevor Loreth-Granite (Brad Haight, Ryan Lowdon and Brett Cawson) AND Kyle Foster-Fort Rouge (Andrew Wickman, Ryan Hylatky, Chad Barkman and Don Nelson)
David Bohn’s Assiniboine Memorial team (Bryan Galbraith, Dennis Bohn, Larry Solomon) posted an 8-2 victory over Daley Peters-West Kildonan (Brendan Taylor, Taren Gesell, Greg Melnichuk) in the Men’s final game at the Manitoba Curling Tour Championships presented by Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries. With the victory, Team Bohn claimed not only the annual MCT Championship but also eligibility for the Safeway provincial men’s championship in Brandon in early February. Having played a limited schedule, the Bohn team came into the event needing to win the title to earn a Safeway Championship berth. Peters played the final game of the championship secure in the knowledge that his team had already secured one the Safeway berths available to the top four teams on the MCT’s season-long rankings. With Peters, MCT rankings invitations to the Safeway Championship were also earned by Sean Grassie-Deer Lodge, Scott Ramsay-Granite, and Jared Kolomaya-Stonewall.
A pair of Westman curlers have been honoured as co-winners of the 2014 Pat Spiring Award by their fellow competitors at the Safeway Championship. Neepawa skip Kelly Robertson and Brandon’s Team Fowler third Allan Lyburn were selected as the first recipients of the new award. The award, established in memory of Pat Spiring by the Spiring family in conjunction with CurlManitoba and the Curling For Life Endowment Fund, recognizes competitive spirit, love of the game, respect for the traditions of the sport of curling, as well as on-ice curling ability. The competing players were asked to nominate competitors in the 20th anniversary Safeway Championship for the award based on their season long observation of the teams as well as during the championship event. The award was presented on behalf of the Spiring family and CurlManitoba by Joelle Brown.